Scores of heavy horses have been harnessed together at a heritage festival in southern New South Wales in what organisers say is a world record.

Aleks Berzins is farming the land in the same way his grandfather did, using draught horses for jobs now widely done by machines.

Ironic cowboy shirts notwitstanding, I’m pretty much an irredeemable city boy — so much so that I’d never even been to a state fair before this weekend. Suffice it to say, then, that when I went to ...